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A Scientist Who Delights in the Mundane
...and physics at Cambridge, and now between biology, mathematics and physics at Harvard. One positive aspect of being between disciplines is being left alone to find my own way through...
How Did Multicellular Life Evolve?
...biology with John Tyler Bonner. RATCLIFF: That’s really cool. STROGATZ: He was a very sweet man too. And you know what else, he had a lot of interest in physics,...
How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories
...1980s. Now few areas of physics remain untouched by Bethe’s nearly century-old insight. “Its importance has continued growing to this day,” said Charlotte Kristjansen, a professor at the Niels Bohr...
Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness
...hundred or so years. But now we may be ready to eliminate at least one set of proposals. Recent experiments have mobilized the extreme sensitivity of particle physics instruments to...
Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab
...where to look for the most elusive theory in physics: one that unites quantum mechanics with the theory of general relativity that describes gravity. And, for good measure, it would...
Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears Not to Conserve Energy
...be an expression of the fundamental symmetries of the universe — a “very important part of the edifice of physics,” said Chiara Marletto, a physicist at the University of Oxford....
Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes
...physics, which has long predicted that space should be suffused with substantial amounts of energy. The quantum fields that permeate space fluctuate in strength, never staying exactly at zero; particles...
Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal
Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data. One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics. The physicists who run the world’s most sensitive experimental search for dark...
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
...and why the world appears deterministic rather than quantum mechanically uncertain. But despite its fundamental importance, entropy is perhaps the most divisive concept in physics. “Entropy has always been a...